Fans are curious why there are so many crossover events for police procedural display 'The Rookie' on ABC. Here's what we know.
If you may have been watching procedural crime drama The Rookie on ABC since its premiere in 2018, you will have spotted the sheer amount of crossover events between The Rookie and its spin-off series The Rookie: Feds. The Rookie: Feds first seemed as a two-episode backdoor pilot all over the display's fourth season in April 2022.
Some lovers have turn out to be pissed off at the crossover between the 2 shows, especially after the Season 5 mid-season premiere of the Rookie showed both casts teaming up for the second time. So, why are there so many Rookie crossover events? Let's investigate.
Why are there so many 'Rookie' crossover events?
While the showrunners for The Rookie and The Rookie: Feds have by no means explicitly mentioned why they are so many crossovers between the 2 shows, Alexi Hawley (The Rookie) and Terence Paul Winter (The Rookie: Feds) did talk to Entertainment Weekly concerning the Season 5 mid-season crossover, suggesting that shared plot traces will also be advanced in numerous instructions on each and every display.
Alexi notes, "We do have characters who do cross from one of the shows to the other, but ultimately ... There is a satisfying conclusion to a certain extent in The Rookie, and then it gets handed off to Feds as it goes to separate direction."
Terence provides, "And our favorite feds get the assist from our favorite former rookie at the LAPD. Nolan is going to join our federal agents to take on the handoff of what happens at the end of The Rookie and carry it forward and ask more questions."
The interview also touches on the historic rigidity between the FBI and the local police pressure when instances get taken from one jurisdiction to every other. Alexi says that stress shall be much less present within the Rookie presentations because of one personality: Supervisory Special Agent Matthew "Matt" Garza (Felix Solis).
"Garza's unit is designed not to be the bully or "We know higher," which you can get with the FBI because they do things a very specific way and have a sense of confidence that comes from that. Garza comes in, and he just wants the best answer. That helps smooth that relationship, the respect both ways from those two teams," Alexi explains.
Some fanatics are exhausted through the crossover events within the 'Rookie' universe.
Not all fans of The Rookie see the crossovers as essential. Following the announcement that the Season Five mid-season finale could be every other crossover, many took to Twitter to voice their lawsuits with "too many crossovers."
One person wrote, "People complain about how the rookie doesnt know how to do crossovers but like does anyone actually want feds characters in the rookie??? bahahahaha most of you guys dont even want the rookies characters in the rookie."
Another user said, "I just think it’s so funny that these “crossovers” always has the feds coming over to the rookie and taking up half the screen time away from the main cast yet you never see the rookie cast that much on feds why do they get to keep taking screen time away from the mains? Idgi."
Who knows what the future holds for each the Rookie and The Rookie: Feds. Catch both displays on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. EST and Nine p.m. EST on ABC.
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